In 2007, the overall industrial economy saw remarkably faster development. The added value of overall industry reached 2.571 billion Yuan, up 17.1 percent over 2006. Of this, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size reached 2.254 billion Yuan, up 17.6 percent. Their output value was 4.136 billion Yuan, an increase of  18.4 percent from that of 2006. The output value of light industry was 1.470 billion Yuan, up 18.7 percent, and that of heavey industry 2.666 billion Yuan, an increase of 18.2 percent. Among the enterprises above designated size, the output value of State-owned and State-controlled enterprises amounted to 2.160 billion Yuan, up 12.6 percent. In regard to registered type, the output value of State-owned enterprises reached 1.382 billion Yuan, a rise of 13.6 percent; that of collective enterprises 185 million Yuan, a fall of 6.2 percent; that of joint-stock enterprises 1.745 billion Yuan, up 31 percent; that of share-holding cooperative enterprises 68 million Yuan, a decrease of 28.5 percent; that of enterprises run by foreigners and the people from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan 398 million Yuan, up 41.4 percent; and that of other ownership enterprises 358 million Yuan, up 1.0 percent.

Through the implementation of the brand-advancement strategy, at the end of 2007, Tibet had two Chinese name-brand products, seven national inspection-free products of four enterprises, 12 Tibetan name-brand products and 23 AAA-grade enterprises in terms of quality and credit standing.

The profits of the industrial enterprises above designated size reached 561 million Yuan, up 42 percent over 2006. The profit of State-owned and State-controlled enterprises was 272 million Yuan, a rise of 66.5 percent; that of collective enterprises 250 million Yuan, a fall of 1.8 percent; and that of joint-stock enterprises 250 million Yuan, up 47.8 percent. As for the industrial enterprises above the designated size, their ratio of sales to gross output value reached 93.6 percent.

 In 2007, the output of beer hit 83,500 tons, a rise of 31.9 percent; that of water supply 9,100 tons, up 17.5 percent; and that of bottled (canned) drinking water 11,900 tons, an increase of 3.6 times. The company producing "5100" mineral water achieved an annual producing capacity of 300,000 tons. It sold 10,000 tons of mineral water in the region, ten times the figure of the previous year. The output of cement reached 1.5966 million tons, a fall of 0.5 percent. The cement products produced in the region occupied the most proportion of the market of this kind in the region.

Electric Power

The year 2007 witnessed new headway by Tibet in the electric power industry. The generated energy of the region reached 1.517 billion kWh, up 14.7 percent. A number of key electric power projects proceeded smoothly. Zhikung Power Station was completed and began to generate electricity; Tiger Mouth Power Station began construction; Bahe Xoika Power Station and emergency power generating facilities for the power grids in central Tibet were successfully implemented. The newly-added installed capacity of electric power stood at 50,000 kW.

The theoretical storage quantity of waterpower in Tibet reaches over 200 million kW, ranking first in China. It is a basic way for solving the problem concerning power supply for the farming and herding areas. In 2007, Tibet made great efforts to improve the electric power infrastructure facilities in rural areas. A total of 320 million Yuan was spent on the third phasa of rural power grid construction and alternation project, solving the power supply needs of 21 counties, 37,900 households and 178,000 persons.

In the next few years, Tibet will actively accelerate the construction of the continual energy base of “diversion of electricity from west to east” and work hard to strengthen the construction and alteration of the third-level power grid, ensuring the stable operation of the power security. Efforts are also made by Tibet to build a total installed capacity from the present 500,000 kW to 1.2 million kW, basically eliminating the presence of villages without electricity and providing formidable motivation for the great-leap-forward development of the economy and society.

Construction

The added value of the building industry in 2007 reached 7.086 billion Yuan, up 15.4 percent, and the proportion in the GDP increased to 20.13 percent.

Recent years have seen increasing investment in the realty business with further reform of the housing system. Investment in this regard has been increasing at an annual average rate of 21.8 percent. In 2007, Tibet's investment in realty development reached 1.168 billion Yuan, an increase of 31.2 percent. The floor space of houses under constructin amounted to 1.1471 milliion square meters, a rise of 6.4 percent; the floor space of houses completed stood at 412,700 square meters; the floor space of commercial residential houses sold reached 607,800 square meters, up 6.4 percent.

( Source: China's Tibet Facts & Figures 2008 )